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Contact: Heike Hemlin
heike.hemlin@cma.ca
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Canadian Medical Association Journal

Living, and giving life, with HIV

Perinatal transmission from mother to child is an important source of HIV infection, but proper treatment of mother and child can reduce or eliminate it. David Burdge and colleagues present the latest Canadian consensus guidelines that provide evidence-based recommendations to practitioners involved in all stages of pregnancy management of HIV patients, including the proper care for their infants.

This article is important because advances in the treatment of HIV/AIDS mean those with the disease live longer and healthier lives, and this includes the possibility of giving birth to healthy, HIV-free children.

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p. 1671 Canadian consensus guidelines for the management of pregnancy, labour and delivery and for postpartum care in HIV-positive pregnant women and their offspring (summary of 2002 guidelines) -- D.R. Burdge et al

p. 1683 Canadian consensus guidelines for the care of HIV-positive pregnant women: putting recommendations into practice -- D.R. Burdge et al


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